The Third Bullet: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel [Kindle Edition] Author: Stephen Hunter | Language: English | ISBN:
B006VFZPBW | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Download for free books The Third Bullet: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel [Kindle Edition] Epub Free for everyone book mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link Bob Lee Swagger is back in a thriller fifty years in the making . . .
It’s not even a clue. It’s a whisper, a trace, a ghost echo, drifting down through the decades via chance connections so fragile that they would disintegrate in the puff of a breath. But it’s enough to get legendary former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger interested in the events of November 22, 1963, and the third bullet that so decisively ended the life of John F. Kennedy and set the stage for one of the most enduring controversies of our time.
Swagger begins his slow night stalk through a much-traveled landscape. But he’s asking questions that few have asked before: Why did the third bullet explode? Why did Lee Harvey Oswald, about to become the most hunted man on earth, risk it all by returning to his rooming house to secure a pistol he easily could have brought with him? How could a conspiracy that went unpenetrated for fifty years have been thrown together in the two and a half days between the announcement of the president’s route and the assassination itself?
As Bob investigates, another voice enters the narrative: knowing, ironic, almost familiar, that of a gifted, Yale-educated veteran of the CIA Plans Division. Hugh Meachum has secrets and the means and the will to keep them buried. When weighed against his own legacy, Swagger’s life is an insignificant expense—but to blunt the threat, he’ll first have to ambush the sniper.
As each man hunts the other across today’s globe and through the thickets of history, The Third Bullet builds to an explosive climax that will finally prove what Bob Lee Swagger has always known: it’s never too late for justice. Books with free ebook downloads available The Third Bullet: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel [Kindle Edition] Epub Free
- File Size: 3987 KB
- Print Length: 498 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1611736374
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (January 15, 2013)
- Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc
- Language: English
- ASIN: B006VFZPBW
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About twenty years ago, Stephen Hunter created a character who became iconic in the annals of action thrillers, Bob Lee Swagger. For me, as well as many others, his series of adventures, occasionally interspersed with tales of his father, Earl Swagger, resulted in must-read high octane thrillers. However, as Bob Lee aged in real time, Hunter found it difficult building new concepts and novels around an action hero who was entering the Medicare generation and his resulting efforts became thinner and spottier when compared to his earlier works. Simply put, Bob Lee was not as exciting as a "thinker" in his old age as he was as a "doer" in his youth.
"The Third Bullet" tries for the trifecta of presenting Swagger as a heavy thinker, mixed into a JFK assassination conspiracy, and still effective in a couple of gun battles. The results again are mixed. Hunter will always be a strong writer and wordsmith if also a little wordy and overly reliant on ballistics at times. Swagger is a well developed character with whom long time readers immediately feel at ease. He is a master at building the suspense leading to planned ambushes and mob "hits" that go awry when Bob Lee goes into action. But basically "The Third Bullet" is hampered by an aged action hero trapped in a "what if" plot that, while plausible, is not particularly stirring.
In a tale that has roots in Bob Lee's first adventure, "Point Of Impact", he responds to a stricken widow's plea for help in searching for the truth behind her journalist husband's death while nosing around in JFK assassination materials in Dallas. Seems Bob Lee is intrigued by a seemingly insignificant clue in his death that becomes a beacon for him retracing the dead journalist's tracks in Dallas.
This is the eighth (seventh?) novel by Hunter featuring master sniper Bob Lee Swagger and then ninth involving his family. I've reviewed two of these novels previously, I, Sniper (2009) for Amazon Vine and Dirty White Boys (1994) for a journal. The previous novel in this series, I, Sniper, was thin -fun, but less believable than the best of these novels had been. With this book, Hunter is back to form.
There is no one who writes about shooters with the authority and grace that Hunter displays in this engrossing series. His experience as a film critic (Pulitzer Prize winner) and novelist (five novels before the first Swagger novel) give an authority to his writing that moves the reader along. Like early Dick Francis or today's Lee Child, when a new Swagger book by Stephen Hunter comes along, I put down my other reading and dig right in and I don't pit the book down until I'm done with it.
About I, Sniper, the previous book in this series, I wrote: "The Swagger novels lean toward complicated back and forth chronology and complicated plot lines, all of which is resolved at the end in a burst of satisfying violence. Hunter's an economical writer, who neither glories in blood and carnage nor ignores describing it when moves his storyline along. Swagger is a fine character. He may not be book educated but he's whip smart in his own environment, as a hunter. He makes smart, even tricky, choices about shooting that in this book ... save his life against long odds. Although by nature a loner, even reclusive, he's also a born leader, with an instinctive feel for making those around trust him."
In this latest addition to the series, Swagger is sixty-six. He has a wife, daughters, a ranch and pretty much everything he needs. He doesn't need more violence.
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